stingers

[Mescalero]

Found a box of stingers in my stuff, $2.46 a box.
Wonder how old that one is?

[Grizz]

Found a box of stingers in my stuff, $2.46 a box.
Wonder how old that one is?

thought this was an AA topic

[Mescalero]

AA?

[FWiedner]

Anti -Aircraft?

[vancelw]

Found a box of stingers in my stuff, $2.46 a box.
Wonder how old that one is?

My boxes are marked $1.98. I bought them at half that price when our Howard's (like Kmart, Gibson's, Walmart) store closed up back in 1987 or so. So yours are probably about the same age.

[Mescalero]

Sounds about right.

[arjunky]

I've got a couple bricks at home with a picture of the old shot up soup can. Probably late 70' for 14.96 a brick.

Byron

[vancelw]

I've got a couple bricks at home with a picture of the old shot up soup can. Probably late 70' for 14.96 a brick.

Byron

Post a picture please I've only ever seen it in the little blue plastic boxes.

[arjunky]

I've got a couple bricks at home with a picture of the old shot up soup can. Probably late 70' for 14.96 a brick.

Byron

Post a picture please I've only ever seen it in the little blue plastic boxes.

The boxes are still blue, the soup can is on the carton.
I'll post some pics tonight when I get home. I think I have a couple cartons of Xpediters too, Anybody remember them. They came out before Stingers in the 70's.

Byron

[Mescalero]

Yep,
Tried every one I could find.

[Grizz]

AA?

yeah, thought you had stumbled on a crate of missles, or some such thing... Heh

[arjunky]

I've got a couple bricks at home with a picture of the old shot up soup can. Probably late 70' for 14.96 a brick.

Byron

Post a picture please I've only ever seen it in the little blue plastic boxes.

I forgot I had two different ones. They must have got in trouble for using Campbells Soup in the earlier ones.


Byron

[vancelw]

There's a flicker of recognition there. Nice thing about getting older is there's more stuff to learn everyday

Beside Campbell's wanting royalties (or whatever) I'm sure they got harangued for wasting food

[Ravenman]

CCI Stinger - I would say late 70 early 80. Way cool picture - Winchester Xpediter. That was nice ammo too. Fast and accurate. I claim the CCI Stinger of today is far better than the older stuff. How is your experience?

[Mescalero]

Have not bought or shot any new stingers in MANY years.

[arjunky]

CCI Stinger - I would say late 70 early 80. Way cool picture - Winchester Xpediter. That was nice ammo too. Fast and accurate. I claim the CCI Stinger of today is far better than the older stuff. How is your experience?

Its not target ammo by any means. Stingers shoot a little over 1 inch groups at 75 yards with my 94/22. I guess I don't need to shoot any better than that for what I'm using it for.
Byron

[JerryB]

I haven't bought any Stingers in a long time. I have a few of the 50 round boxes, they are not real accurate but like arjunky says they are real good for what I want. I keep an big old German single action 22 sixgun on top of the fridge loaded with them, it's been there for what ever is needed for a lot of years. They will get the job done.

[piller]

That is cool. I started buying them in the 80s when I was old enough. My Dad never cared for any of the fancy unproven stuff, and stayed with his Federal copper coated .22 in the red box. My Brother and I tried Stingers, Yellow Jackets, vipers, and those ones that were supposed to be prefragmented into 3 sections. I still like the accuracy from the plain little HP loads, but the Stingers do some awesome damage to a watermelon.